Famous actress and the “Charlie’s Angels” star, Farrah Fawcett, is shown shaving off her own blond hair in a heart-wrenching video diary for her long battle against cancer which is about to reach its end.
The effectively self-written obituary – “Farrah’s Story” – was given a premiere on the night of May 13, 2009, ahead of a nationwide broadcast that is to be shown on NBC television on May 15, 2009.
The film runs for 90 minutes, a lot of it is narrated by Farrah herself, showing the chronicles of the highs and lows of her many medical treatments since her diagnosis of anal cancer in 2006 and the last few weeks when she is already bedridden, medicated heavily and can barely able to identify her own son.
Actor Ryan O’Nell, Farrah’s long-time companion, called her a fighter and stated that the 62-year-old actress wants to share her journey on cancer with the public on a way that she knows.
Farrah earned her international fame for portraying as the blond, tanned private eye in the popular television show “Charlie’s Angels” in the 1970s. The film comprised a footage of Britain’s young Prince Charles having to meet her.
Unflinching with details, the film features Farrah occasionally vomiting because of the side effects of her treatments on cancer and on some occasions, dancing along with friends during the times when the tumors had shrunk.
In 2007, when the cancer cells have spread on her liver, she said that, “I do not want to die of this disease. I want to stay alive. So I say to God… it is seriously time for a miracle.”
Just around six months ago, Farrah’s hair starts to fall out.
Her doctors initially had avoided treatments that would lead to hair loss for Farrah, whose blond locks were imitated by millions of women throughout the world during the 1970s.
However, when other treatments in Germany and the United States has run out, Farrah filmed her hair that is falling out of a comb, shaving off the remainder and saving only her bangs.
An emotional Ryan, stated in an interview in NBC TV that is broadcasted earlier on May 13, 2009 that, “In the last two years I loved her more than I’ve ever loved her, ever. She’s the rock. She taught us all how to cope. She is extraordinary. I don’t know what will I do without her.”
In some moments, Farrah and Ryan are filmed together lying on a hospital bed. Formerly, after the encouraging news from the doctors, they joke on being in “another ‘Love Story’ movie” – a nod on the tragic romance film that made Ryan a star in the 1970s.
Farrah’s film taken around last month is showing a tiny figure that is curled up in a huge bed at her area home in Los Angeles.
Farrah appears to barely recognize her own son Redmond O’Neal, when he is briefly released from jail because of drugs to visit his mother. She does not even notice that her son is wearing a jail inmate garb and his hands and feet are shackled. Ryan said that Farrah had not seen the complete film and was not aware of the publicity that surrounds it.
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